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Patrick J. Buchanan says the welfare-happy nations of Europe may soon see their fears materialize as a financial tsunami. Catalyzed by Greece’s imminent debt default, it could trigger a collapse of the European Union and bring about a global depression. Germany is the only nation believed capable of saving the EU, but with a dwindling [...]
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After months of speculation, the U.S military has killed an American-born cleric in what is probably the clearest indication that the U.S Constitution has been set aside for another (ever-evolving) piece of paper called the Authorized Use of Military Force (AUMF). Now the military has truly become judge, jury and executioner, with the full blessing [...]
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As Greece lurches on the precipice of default on its sovereign debt, a default that could bring down banks across Europe and precipitate a global financial panic, a consensus is building that there is but one way out. First, a structured default on the Greek debt, giving creditors a major haircut, but compensating them with [...]
Filed under: Europe
NPR reports that an increasing number of news sites — in the interest of reducing trolls and personal attacks — are requiring commenters to disclose their real names. How do they verify that a person is using their offline identity? By requiring them to login via leading social network Facebook. As one Los Angeles Times [...]
Filed under: Culture, Technology
Is America doomed to go of the way of all empires before it? The waning British empire of the 20th century conducted a series of unsuccessful experiments in the Middle East, before America filled in for her in the latter half of the century. None of these have proven successful on a macro level. Leon [...]
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A columnist for my local paper is looking for a “peace candidate” who has no desire to build other peoples’ nations for them and who would be willing to reassess our “military intervention throughout the world.” She reaches the conclusion, however tentatively, that instead of having so many of our troops bogged down thousands of [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics
“Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. “Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and [...]
Peter Hitchens laments the fact that the utopia of progressive visions is, as they often say, ‘a world without borders’. Getting rid of borders, he says, takes all the fun out of it. Utopia, you may be sure, has no borders. It goes on forever. There is no escape from it from horizon to horizon. [...]
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Candidate Barack Obama promised transparent and accountable government. In retrospect that pledge was an empty one as in reality he has hidden behind government secrecy even more than his predecessor. Nowhere is secrecy less acceptable than in the government machinations that could lead to war. If more Americans had been aware of the cooked intelligence [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Since the anti-agribusiness movement hit full stride with the release of the “Food, Inc.” documentary in 2008, corporate farming has found itself back on its heels. But they’ve now launched a counter-assault, with support from their allies at the USDA and agricultural science departments. The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), newly formed in 2010, [...]